Natural Dreamwork with Mary Jo
That which I will carry forward into the new year is not a resolution. There is something about being resolute that feels willful, heavy handed and unmoving. We judge ourselves, have lost faith in ourselves and feel we must take charge. So we make harsh rigid rules for ourselves and then feel like failures when …
Can working with our dreams help us recover a healthy weight, have better relationships, a deeper sense of self, be happier people, feel true compassion for what we cannot change? Yes…they can. When we begin working with our dreams, the dreams meet us where we are in our lives. For many of us that’s living …
A while back someone I respect was speaking to me about leaving a legacy…my writing, my work…and I nodded…listened politely…while my mind was saying, ‘yeah…yeah…yeah.’ Not a desire of mine…to leave something of myself behind. It hasn’t felt important for me…no desire or need to have people remember me…seems arrogant and full of self to …
When Voldemort struck a death blow to baby Harry Potter, Harry didn’t die but he was left with more than the lightning bolt scar. He had embedded within him a piece of Voldemort…a horcrux…which afflicted him and caused him great confusion and pain. As we would say in Natural Dreamwork…it conditioned him to be in …
Often times what is most revealing and therefore very important in our dreams may be what is not seen, what is not said…what is not felt. This is where, as practitioners of Natural Dreamwork, we learn to stop and take a closer look. A clue as to where something might be hiding, unexpressed or unfelt …
In one of my Dream Circles, where I work with dreamers exploring together what their dreams may be trying to teach them, a participant was excited to share a recent dream where she was in water surrounded by sharks…“And I woke up in terror. So I went back and changed the ending…I went into the …